McKieran帮助为Bexar县社区条件推出强大的数据工具

德西的beta版本的强大的新工具gned to help people find and use data about community conditions in Bexar County, led by Laura McKieran, PhD of UTHealth Houston School of Public Health San Antonio, has been launched by Community Information Now (CI:Now).

Bexar County Data Dive is accessible online atdive.cinow.info. It was developed by McKieran and her team along with other community partners for CI:Now, a nonprofit local data aggregator.

该平台的亮点包括：

• Built for ease of use and accessibility for all people
• Offers local data on areas ranging from health and demographics to education, economic status, housing, criminal justice, environment and transportation
• 用户可以通过县，人口普查区，邮政编码或新的基于人口普查的地理位置探索数据（如果有），称为统计小面积（SSA）；并按种族/民族，年龄段和性别来分解数据
• 比较不同的地理和群体，例如种族/族裔群体
• A Spanish-language version of the site will be launched in winter 2022.
• 新功能开发和数据添加正在进行中。

CI:Now won a three-year grant in 2021 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health to help people in Bexar County access and use data to reduce health disparities and inequities. In addition to supporting development of the data platform itself, the grant also supports outreach, training, and technical assistance to help people understand and use the data.

McKieran is executive director of CI:Now and a faculty member at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, which has worked with CI:Now since 2008. The school has been a vital public health asset for the San Antonio community since it was founded in 1979. Most recently the school supported the city during the COVID-19 pandemic by working closely with Metro Health to do contact tracing. The two-year project just wrapped up in September.

关于圣安东尼奥公共卫生公共卫生学院的Uthealth Houston学院：Uthealth休斯顿公共卫生学院圣安东尼奥市成立于1979年，是Uthealth Houston公共卫生学院的校园。学校提供各种公共卫生学位和证书，旨在为学生提供专注于现代历史上一些最大健康问题的职业的工具，知识和机会。教师根据周围社区的需求进行研究，beplay苹果手机能用吗并与其他大学，军事组织和卫生保健小组合作，制定全球影响力的全面策略。

The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the critical importance of having excellent public health leaders. With more than 40 years in the San Antonio community, the UTHealth School of Public Health stands ready to train the next generation of public health servants.

About Community Information Now: CI:Now is a nonprofit local data intermediary that provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve Texas communities, focusing primarily on Bexar and surrounding counties..